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Re: B20.1: Scripts not executed in the current directory (bash)

On Fri, Apr 09, 1999 at 02:18:22PM -0500, dye053 wrote:
>In B20.1 I noticed a problem that I didn't have with B20 release:
>
>In bash, scripts with shebang (#!) are not excuted in the current
>directory, although they are correctly identified as executable files by
>ls.  On the other hand, scripts located in a different directory are
>executed without a problem.
>
>A workaround is to call the interpreter explicitly, e.g. perl foo.pl
>
>Anyone else have this problem?

Set your PATH environment variable to include the current directory.

-chris

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